Verification of an energy-conserving semi-implicit electrostatic particle-in-cell scheme for modeling high-density plasma at scale (opens in new tab)

May 2026 | R.M. Hedlof (SNL) | Physics of Plasmas | Paper A verification study of a semi-implicit energy-conserving electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm is presented. The algorithm relaxes the time-step and mesh-size constraints that require resolution of the plasma period and Debye length associated with traditional explicit momentum-conserving particle-in-cell algorithms The post appeared first on .